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<td class="v">16:1</td>
<td>Then Job answered and said,</td>
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<td class="v">16:2</td>
<td>I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.</td>
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<td class="v">16:3</td>
<td>Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?</td>
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<td class="v">16:4</td>
<td>I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.</td>
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<td class="v">16:5</td>
<td>But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.</td>
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<td class="v">16:6</td>
<td>Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?</td>
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<td class="v">16:7</td>
<td>But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.</td>
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<td class="v">16:8</td>
<td>And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.</td>
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<td class="v">16:9</td>
<td>He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.</td>
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<td class="v">16:10</td>
<td>They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.</td>
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<td class="v">16:11</td>
<td>God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.</td>
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<td class="v">16:12</td>
<td>I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.</td>
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<td class="v">16:13</td>
<td>His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.</td>
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<td class="v">16:14</td>
<td>He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.</td>
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<td class="v">16:15</td>
<td>I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.</td>
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<td class="v">16:16</td>
<td>My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;</td>
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<td class="v">16:17</td>
<td>Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.</td>
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<td class="v">16:18</td>
<td>O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.</td>
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<td class="v">16:19</td>
<td>Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.</td>
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<td class="v">16:20</td>
<td>My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.</td>
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<td class="v">16:21</td>
<td>O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!</td>
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<td class="v">16:22</td>
<td>When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.</td>
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